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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Huh, WestJet and the Provincial Government sign into a partnership to further aviation growth in Alberta. WestJet also says ALL 787 intercontinental flights will be out of Calgary, that's a pretty interesting detail. Completely abandoning Toronto for trans-Atlantic service with them?
https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/news/2...ter%3A20221005 |
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
That’s true, but I didn’t have them bailing on YYZ completely with the 787 on my bingo card.
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Didn't they only run YYZ-LGW on the 787 anyway? Daily, but I thought that was their only Dreamliner trans Atlantic route. This doesn't necessarily mean the 787 never sees YYZ, or even YVR either. They currently do a YYC-YYZ turn, and they've done YYZ-YVR in the past (mainly to give the aircraft something to do during Covid) but it's conceivable they could run a YYC-YYZ-YVR triangle.
Summer sees decent usage of the 787, winter is a little more challenging. When Europe drops off there aren't a lot of routes to keep them busy (and the utilization up). Will be interesting to see how they build up YYC to give them something to do.